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单词 to lose caste
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to lose caste
to lose caste: to be ostracized from or censured by one's caste, typically for behaviour considered unacceptable to that group; to lose the social position and status conferred by membership of a caste; (hence, in extended use) to fall in the estimation of a community, society, or group; to decline in reputation.
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society > society and the community > social class > be ranked socially [verb (intransitive)] > lose class
to lose caste1794
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)]
to light lowc1225
to lie lowa1275
to carry (also bear) coalsa1529
to eat the (or one's) leek1600
to lose caste1828
to eat dirt1857
1794 W. Carey Let. 3 Jan. in Baptist Reg. for 1794–7 (?1797) 163 One of the Rev. Mr. Brown's people at Calcutta..told him that if he would be baptized, and lose Cast, he would give him some support.
1814 M. M. Sherwood Hist. Little Henry & his Bearer 126 He has lost cast for becoming a Christian.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 179 A natural fear of losing caste among her neighbours.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement iii. 106 It is one of the smallest and dreariest of squares, and is rapidly losing caste.
1974 Jrnl. Southeast Asian Stud. 5 142 The Mutiny of the Bengal Sepoys, in 1824, over fear of losing caste by crossing the Bay of Bengal.
2002 Independent 29 Oct. 14/1 Candida has ‘lost caste’ by buying a small flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove, dark, dirty and menacing.
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